What instruments do the zither and the serpent refer to? Try to be more detailed!

1, qin

Qin, the earliest refers to yaoqin (guqin), in recent times has been used by many as a class name, that is, to indicate a class of musical instruments. (Note that the word "qin" as a class, only in modern Chinese, in all the ancient literature, as well as the Chinese literature before the Qing Dynasty, the qin category is very broad (also known as yaoqin, yuqin, commonly known as guqin), including both orchestral instruments, such as the violin, flute; keyboard instruments, such as the piano, organ, etc.; percussive instruments, such as the steel piece of the qin, these musical instruments All of these instruments can be abbreviated to "qin" in different contexts in modern Chinese.

The structure of the zither--

The upper part of the "zither head" is called the forehead. The lower part of the frontal area is covered with hardwood for the strings and is called "yakusan," or "linyue," and is the highest part of the qin. At the bottom of the instrument, there are two sound grooves of different sizes, the larger one in the center is called the "dragon pool" and the smaller one at the end is called the "phoenix swamp".

Seven strings start from the upper part of the dew, through the Yue Shan, Long Gum, turning to the bottom of the pair of "goose feet", symbolizing the seven stars. There are thirteen "qin emblems" on the surface of the instrument, symbolizing the twelve months of the year and a leap month.

Inside the belly of the zither, there are two dark grooves in the head, a "tongue point" and a "sound pool". The tail generally also has a dark groove, known as the "rhyme marsh". There is often a "nayin" at the opposite side of the dragon pool and phoenix marsh. Dragon pool Nayin against the head side of the "heavenly pillar", against the tail side of the "earth pillar".

To make the sound, "the sound wants to come out and narrow, wandering not to go, there is an aftertaste". Because the instrument has no "pin" (column) or "yard", it is very easy to play flexibly, and has a particularly long effective string, the string amplitude, the aftertone is long and unending and so on, which is why it has its unique walking sound.

2. Thur

The Thur is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument, similar in shape to the zheng but slightly wider. According to the pentatonic tuning of the strings, often as the accompaniment of the qin, often with the ancient qin and the qin seer. The earliest recorded use of the qin was in the Classic of Poetry, and after the Tang Dynasty, it was used as a musical instrument for courtly elegance. Though the serpent has begun to decline in modern times, it has a very important place in Chinese culture.

Construction of the Thur--

The Thur is a hollow rectangle lying flat, with a slightly raised face. The case is usually made of whole wood with a base plate. Sometimes there are sound holes on the sides and bottom of the case. On the surface of the box, the first section of a longer "Yue Shan" (hardwood used to frame the strings), the end of three short Yue Shan and four pegs, used to fix the strings. A typical thurible has 25 silk strings arranged parallel to the body of the instrument. Under each string there is a movable post (also known as yardstick, goose post), which is used for tuning.

The length of the thurible varies from 120 to 170 centimeters (47 to 67 inches), and there are elegant, ode, large, and small thuribles. The elegant thurible has twenty-three strings, the ode thurible has twenty-five strings, the large thurible has twenty-seven strings, and the small thurible has fifteen strings. It is rumored that the ancient thurible had 50 strings, "Han Shu - Suburb Sacrifice Records", "Tai Di ordered Su Nu to drum a 50-stringed thurible, sad, the emperor forbade could not stop, so broke its thurible for 25 strings".In the 1930's, Zheng Haiwen founded the Great Tong Music Association and improved the thurible, making a 50-stringed butser and a 100-stringed big thurible.

The sound quality of the serpent is full, with a crisp treble, a bright alto, and a thick bass. Its range of pentatonic modulation can cover five octaves. It can be played solo or in ensemble, or used to accompany singing. In ancient times, it was often played with the guqin or sheng. The player usually puts the sheng across his knees and alternates between his right and left hands.

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The Thurible has a very long history of origins, and accounts for the largest number of archaeologically discovered stringed instruments. Its excavation sites are concentrated in Hubei, Hunan and Henan provinces, and the vast majority from the Eastern Zhou Chu tomb. Other provinces such as jiangsu, anhui, shandong and liaoning, only a little sporadic discovery. The literature records that "Bo Xi's" made the ceramic.

Legends in the Xia Dynasty has been a ceramic. The oracle bone inscription on the "music" word, the top is "silk" word, the bottom is a "wood" word. The string was used to make the serpent, so the serpent should have been produced after the appearance of silk. The raw material for the strings, at least the technology of reeling silk can make the strings. The stringed instruments before and after the pre-Qin period were the zither and the serpent.

Another hypothesis is that instruments like the qin and the seer may have been related to bowstrings for hunting. Certainly, bowstrings could have been made from strips of ox sinew or other animal hide. The thickest of the bass strings of the thurible unearthed from the Zenghouyi Tomb, which we reproduced in 1984, were made from ox-band strings.

Thurst is one of the earliest stringed instruments in China, the pre-Qin Dynasty was extremely popular, the Han Dynasty is also very popular, the North and South Dynasties are often used in the phase and song accompaniment, the Tang Dynasty is used quite a lot of the later generations gradually used less.

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